LPGA’s ‘Party on Tour’
Returns to Orlando this January
Fans don’t often get to see LPGA
Tour champions such as Lexi
Thompson and Brooke Henderson
taking selfies on the course or
competing alongside sports and entertainment
stars like Ray Allen, Mark
Mulder and Kevin Millar.
But the Diamond Resorts Tournament
of Champions Presented by
Insurance Office of America is not
your typical golf tournament. The
party and the LPGA Tour will kick
off Jan. 16-19, 2020, at Four Seasons
Golf and Sports Club Orlando.
Balancing serious competition
with an entertaining twist, this
tournament is a true winners-only
event, with only LPGA champions
from the 2018 and 2019
seasons qualifying to compete. To
date, more than two dozen LPGA
players have qualified, including
standouts Brittany Lincicome,
Brooke Henderson, Lexi Thompson,
Michelle Wie, Lydia Ko,
Nelly Korda and Eun-Hee Ji, who
won the inaugural Diamond Resorts
Tournament of Champions
in January 2019.
Baseball Hall of Famer John
Smoltz will return to defend his 2019
title against fellow pro-sports and entertainment
stars, including football
Hall of Famers Marcus Allen and Brian
Urlacher, hockey All-Star Jeremy
Roenick, comedian Larry the Cable
Guy and TV personality Ben Higgins,
who starred in season 20 of ABC’s
“The Bachelor.”
The LPGA competitors will
play 72 holes with no cut for $1.2
million in official prize money,
while the celebrities play for their
own $500,000 purse using a modified
Stableford format. A group of
10 amateur golfers, who play in the
event’s pro-am, will also qualify to
play alongside the stars during official
tournament rounds.
Threesomes may include a
combination of LPGA champions
and sports or entertainment celebrities,
and some with all LPGA players
or all celebrities.
All four days of play are nationally
televised, with Thursday
and Friday on Golf Channel, and
Saturday and Sunday on NBC. But
nothing beats catching the competition
live on the course.
Fans can purchase several ticket
packages, ranging from $30 for a
single-day grounds pass to $60 for a
4-day pass. Also available are a limited
number of Club 18 packages,
which include seats in a skybox on
Hole 18, a fully catered lunch, premium
open bar and tickets to two
private evening events that were
previously only open to LPGA
players, celebrities and tournament
sponsors. These packages are priced
at $3,000.
There is also a new ticket addon
option this year for the Taste
& Travel Pass with five- or 10-tab
options — priced at $40 and $80
respectively — so fans can eat and
drink their way around the course
while catching the action.
For more information and to buy
tickets, visit DiamondLPGA.com.
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Diamond Resorts Tournament of Champions brings
LPGA winners and celebrities to Central Florida.
PHOTOS COURTESY OF DIAMOND RESORTS TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS
28 Central Florida Lifestyle | December 2019
LPGA champions will play alongside
sports and entertainment stars at
the Diamond Resorts Tournament of
Champions this January.
Fans can meet their
favorite players and
celebrities on the
course at this annual
tournament.
/DiamondLPGA.com